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,PETERS, PHDTO UTPDGRAPMR *IMM HGron o c linitrd tatea D. FRANK HALE, 0F GHIGOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS,

Letters Patent No. 108,587, dated October 25, 1870.

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IMPROVEMENT IN GAMES.

The schedina referred to in um@ Letten Parent and making pm of the same.

. I, l). F z.- \1; HALE, of Ghicop'ee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, have iur'ented certain improved Implements for Playiugthe Game which I designate the Magic-Hoops,71 ot' which improved ,implements the following'is a practical description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, wherein- Figure l' is a side elevation of the standard surrounded by a hoop;

Figure 2 a plan of the same; and;

Figure 3 a plan of a series ofthe hoops.

My improved implements consist of a standard, properly colored, and marked and numbered, and of a series of two or more hoops or" .different sizes, party-eolored or otherwise, and properly marked or numbored.

In the accompanying drawing- The-part marked a represents the standard;

h the base or pedestal thereof; and

c f" c" c"' metal, or other suitable material.

I paint or color the standard a, in rings, as of' red,

white, blue, green, Jvc., and place on each of such rings some number, as 5, 10, 1550, &c. g

'Ihe hoops I make of one or more colors, or leave lthem uncovered; if colored, I prefer to make the largest, c, of the same color as the ring on the standard marked lowest, as 5; the next in size, c, ot' the color of the ringext higher in number, as l0; and so on with the whole series. I also number each hoop the same as the ring ot' corresponding color on the standard, the largest being lowest, aud the smallest highest, as c", 5, and c, 50.

the series of hoops, all made -of wood,-

'standard may have two or more sets of numbers thereon.

'Ihe game is played by setting up the standard on the parlor oor, or on the lawn, and each of two or more persons, at a given distance therefrom, alternately tossing a whole series of hoops thereat; each hoop lightingion and surrounding the standard counts the player as many as the number marked thereon,

`or on the ring of correspondingcolor on the standard. Each hoop failing so to lightcounts nothin".

If the game be iixed at one hnudred,'the party counting that number first is said to have beaten; and, if more than two persons play, therga-me maybe continued till all but one have beaten.

If v more than one series of hoops be used with the same standard each series maybe of a single but different color, as one series of red, another of white, &e., and all numbered according to size.

The object of the dilerent rcolors and numbers on the standard and hoops is to facilitatecounting,l

and to determine whose play it is, when more than two are engaged iu the game.

I am aware that hoops and standards, as such, are not new; but as an aggregate set of implements for playing a game, when colored and numbered, as above y,

am not aware of their use or existencespecified, I and vWhat I claim as my invention is The implements of the above-described game, consisting of stand and base, a. I), and a series of dierent-sized hoops, o c', &c.; said standardand hoops having dilerent colors and numbers marked thereon, as and for the purpose herein specified. A XVitliesses: I). FRANK HALE.

JOHN A. HALL, SIDNEY SANDERS. 

